The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-07-16
THE MODERN EDEN.
Concluded from Paae T,co.


 Tyrol, and all the softer beauties of Killarney and Como and Naples dwin- de into insignificance by comparison with the stupendous scenes that meet the gaze at every turn in this land of snow-crowned peaks, bottomless chasms, cataracts, floods and caverns, of dizzy heights and awful depths, of whirling waters, giant crags, preci- pices, foaming torrents and flying spray. It is the tourists paradise, the holy land of sight seers and lovers of Nature in her sublimest and loveliest moods. It is the worlds great sani- tarium. In its pure atmosphere ca tarrh, hay-fever and asthma vanish like imps of darkness before the rising sun. Even consumption finds relief and often cure. From the Deity wrought laboratories of it's mountain sides burst forth magical fountains of healing; hot springs whose waters relieve rheumatism, gout, dyspep- sia, and nearly every form of nervous, infammatory and cutaneous disease; sulphur springs of every known variety, white, red, yellow, blue and black, hot and cold; as we'll as soda, alum, magnesia, arsenic and all the countless species of chalybeate springs. Colorado has millions of acres of rich and productive agricultural lands, and tens of millions of acres of the finest pasture lands beneath the sun. Stock raising is yet in it's infancy, but the value of the herds is about $25, ,000, ,000. There is literally no expense about the raising of cattle except the pay of the herders. But the great industry of Colorado, that which has made its name a talismanic word throughout the world, is its marvellous mines of gold and silver. They are the wonder of mankind. They have eclipsed the dazzling miracles of Aladdin and his lamp, and enabled the rude day -laborers of ten or fifteen years ago to vie with the Rothschilds, and to surpass kings and emperors in riches Colorado leads all the world as a producer of gold and silver, and the names of Denver, Leadville, Georgetown, Silver Cliff, Gunnison, Boulder and score of other wild mining camps, many of them unheard of ten or fifteen years ago, are as we'll and as widely known as New York, London, Paris or Rome. Since 1860, the state has yielded over $2O0, 100000 of gold and silver bullion, and the output last year was nearly $30,000, ,000, or something like half of the total product of the United States. No region on all the beauteous globe offers more attractions, or presents more opportunities, to the Nature lover, the artist, the tourist, the capi- talist, the man of nerve and enterprise, or the invalid, to the seeker for recre- ation, health or fortune, than Colorado, the gold-and- jewel -decl1ed queen of the Rockies.
 Minnesota, another of the young giants and beauties of the western Eden, was first settled in 1845. It was organized as a territory in 1849, with a population of 4,057 It was admitted as a state in 1858, with 150,037 people. In 1860, it had 172,- 023; Tn 1870, 439, 9,706; in 1880, 7S0,773; and it now has at least 100000. It has an area of S5,531 square miles, or 54,739,840 acres. It has 1,500 miles of navigable rivers, and it's surface is gemmed with over 1000 beautiful lakes. The northeastern part of the state is covered with magnificent for ests of pine, tamarack, fir and cedar, while all the rest of it's vast extent is rich in agricultural and pastoral re- sources. Its soil is of marvellous fer tility, and it's climate bracing and in- vigorating. Invalids are sent from all parts of the country to be cured by the pure and revivifying Minnesota air. The state abounds ill glorious and en- chanting scenes and summer sumter ing places, among which Minnetonka and White Bear lakes, Albert Lea and Minnehaha Falls are known through out the republic, and in some measure throughout the world. The growth of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, the three principal cities of the state, has been without parallel in Ameri- can history. The whole state was swept by the savage Sioux in 1862. Minneapolis aud St. Paul were little more than obscure frontier trad ing posts twenty years ago. To-day, they are superbly built, rushing cities ot 10000 population each, or BOG, 900 between them, and sublimely confi- dent that they will pass St. Louis at the next census. Over 800 passenger trains daily come into and go out of their depots, and Minneapolis stands first among the great milling cities of the world. They are unequaled on earth in the rapidity of their rise; and unsurpassed in their magnificent pros- poets for the future, their faith in themselves and their destiny, the bit terness of their rivalry, their public spirit and their adamantine cheek.